cxxxvi. URTIOACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 575 



33. PROCRIS, .Tux*. 



Succulent herbs or shrubs, often epiphytic, with the characters of Elato- 

 stema, but the male flowers in axillary cymes or clusters, the fern, only 

 being on a receptacle. Achene ovoid or elliptic, striolate. Species 5 or 6, 

 Asiatic, African and Polynesian. 



1. P. laevigrata, Blume Bijd. 508; quite glabrous, leaves obliquely 

 oblanceolate acuminate entire or crenate- serrate above the middle, flowers 

 from the naked branches, males in small sessile clusters, fern, in shortly 

 peduncled small recepts. Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 192 ; Thwaites Enum. 

 260 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. ii. 248 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1295. P. Wightiana, 

 Wall. Cat. 4638; Wedd. Monogr. 336. Elatostema laevigatum, Hassle. 

 Cat. Hort. Bogor. 79. E. Wightianum, Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, i. 

 188. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-4000 ft., J. 2). H., and B HOT AN, Clarke. KHASIA 

 and MISHMI HILLS, alt. 1-4000 ft., Griffith, &c. MUNNIPOKE, Clarke. DECCAN 

 PENINSULA, Wight. CEYLON, ascending to 6000 ft. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo, Tro- 

 pical Africa. 



A succulent epiphytic undershrub, 2-5 ft. high ; stem as thick as the thumb 

 below. Leaves 6-10 in., narrowed into the short petiole. Fern, recepts |~^ in., 

 peduncles - in. Achenes ovoid, slightly compressed. Snbopposite or alternating 

 minute leaflets occur, but not constantly, in this and the following. 



2. P. frutescens, Blume Bijd. 510 ; leaves oblong-obovate or ob- 

 lanceolate cuspidate nearly entire, male cymes lax-fld., fern, heads solitary 

 sessile. Wedd. Monogr. 335 ; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 192 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 

 ii. 248. Elatostema f rutescens, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 79. 



PENANG, Porter, Curtis. DISTEIB. Java, Borneo. 



An epiphyte; stem woody below, branches succulent. Leaves 6-8 in., very thick ; 

 petiole j in. Male fl. not seen. Fern, heads % in. diam. Achenes ellipsoid. 



34. BOEHMERIA, Jacq. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite and alternate, toothed, 3-nerved ; 

 stipules usually free. Flowers in unisexual axillary or spiked racemed or 

 panicled clusters. MALE. PL. Perianth 3-5-lobed or -parted, valvate. Sta- 

 mens 3-5, inflexed in bud. Pistillode clavate or globose. FEH FL. Perianth 

 tubular, 2-4-toothed, fruiting sometimes angled winged or swollen. Ovary 

 included ; stigma filiform, persistent ; ovule erect. Achene closely invested 

 by the perianth, crustaceous, at length free. Seed albuminous; cotyledons 

 ovate. Species about 45, chiefly tropical. 



* Flower clusters axillary. Leaves opposite or alternate. 



1. B. malabarica, Wedd. Monogr. 355; DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 203; 

 monoecious, leaves alternate subequal. or the alternate smaller elliptic or 

 ovate to oblong acuminate or caudate crenulate or serrulate from above the 

 rounded or cordate base glabrous above pubescent beneath, clusters axillary, 

 fruiting perianth elliptic or roundish pubescent, margins obtuse. Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 422 ; Thwaites Enum. 260. B. travancorica, Bedd. For. Man. 225 

 (B. ramiflora), t. 27, f. 2. Urtica malabarica, Wall. Cat. 4610. U. aquatica, 

 Moon Cat. Ceyl. PI. 62. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, ascending to 5000 ft., J. D. H., &c. MISHMI HILLS, Griffith. 

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